Please spread awareness of the threat to wildlife by the Sportsmen's Act that was approved by the House and is going to the Senate. Info from Green Consciousness If the Sportmen's Act passes we will never get trapping off the public land.

The House has already passed the Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act of 2013. Now there is Senate bill 1996, and a package of seven companion bills, all of which would tragically hurt wildlife and take away the rights of the majority of Americans who don’t hunt, trap, or fish.

If enacted, these bills would:

Mandate a free-for-all of trappers/hunters/fishermen/recreational shooters on 700 million acres of National Forests and Bureau of Land Management land (BLM) - federal public land that belongs to YOU. Trapping is implicit and defined as a subtype of hunting and as such, trapping is green-lighted without being mentioned again. This is analogous to the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997 by Don Young (R-AK), which turned National Wildlife Refuges System from sanctuaries into playgrounds for hunters, anglers, and trappers.
Make hunting, fishing, and trapping a "priority public use" of federal lands. National Forests and BLM land are hunted, trapped, and fished already. Many have public shooting ranges. The bills would go even further by placing one class of visitors above the majority of recreationists on federal public lands who don’t hunt, trap, or fish. The bills would be a menace to public safety and interfere with other visitors' quiet, peaceful enjoyment of nature.
Get hunters into National Parks through a backdoor. While hunting is prohibited in National Parks, "skilled volunteers" (read: hunters) would be allowed in the killing (culling) of wildlife populations on federal lands.
Allow polar bear "trophies" from Canada be imported into the US. That would stimulate hunting of this imperiled species.
Bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating lead in ammunition and fishing sinkers. Lead is a neurotoxin which we've eliminated from gasoline, paint, and toys. But 3,000 tons of lead shot and bullets per year are fired into the wild and 4,000 tons per year from fishing tackle is lost in ponds and streams. Many birds of prey ingest spent lead fragments when feeding on animals that were shot and are themselves killed.

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